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Stroke Signs and Symptoms Questions

41 Question and Answer Results

This is, unfortunately, an extremely tricky question with no clear cut answer. Venous clots in the brain are very rare, and developmental venous anomalies causing symptoms are also very rare. It is unlike an arterial stroke.

Confusion and hallucinations are unlikely to be caused by a stroke. Stroke are almost always associated with some type of specific neurologic loss of function - such as weakness or numbness of one side of the body, visual loss, language dysfunction, etc. Confusion and hallucinations are almost alw...

I am bit concerned that what you are describing are actually small seizures, not TIAs. It is atypical for TIAs to recur so frequently, be associated with memory loss for the event, or to be associated with "flashbacks". It sounds more likely to me that you are having small seizures.

The symptoms you describe do not sound typical for a stroke. A stroke would not be expected to cause pain and soreness. Numbness may occur, whereas tingling typically does not. I think it is more likely that you have a pinched nerve in the neck region. An MRI of the cervical spine (neck region) ...

In general, stroke symptoms are worst at onset and then slowly improve. A few exceptions to this are pain syndromes and "phantom limb" syndromes, which often start weeks or months after the stroke. Therefore, headaches could occur several months after the stroke. I have seen this on a handful of ...

You are absolutely right to be concerned, and it is unacceptable to simply look at this as a natural progression of his original stroke. Strokes are virtually always worst within the first 2 weeks. It would EXTREMELY uncommon for a stroke to worsen this far out, and therefore makes me think that s...

The main difference is that a TIA (what some people cause a ministroke) doesn't cause lasting damage. A TIA, which stands for transient ischemc attack, and a stroke are caused by the same problem: blood clots that lodge in the brain. But some people get lucky and recover quickly without any lasting ...

This isn't a typical stroke symptom. Some unusual stroke symptoms affect the spinal cord instead of the brain, and that might cause this type of sensation. But more likely it's related to another medical issue. It could be as simple as an acid reflux problem, which might be relieved by propping him ...

Often, it is very difficult to tell if someone is having memory loss from multiple small strokes, or from Alzheimer's disease. A particular challenging part of the problem is that Alzheimer's can only be definitively diagnosed by looking at the brain under a microscope - in other words, in a post-m...

This does not sound like a stroke symptom. Strokes would not be expected to cause the sensation of a loud noise - unless it was associated with a severe headache - which could indicate a sudden bleed in the head. I would suggest they be seen by their primary care physicians, and that imaging of th...

Assuming this is an "ischemic" stroke - or one in which the stroke is caused by a blockage of blood flow - chronic pain is not typically a sign of an impending stroke, with a few exceptions. These would include 1) a tight blockage of an artery or 2) a torn artery. Both of these are very rare cause...

Having arm, leg, and back numbness could mean you are having a stroke. A large determinant is whether one side of the body is affected, or the whole body. If the numbness is contained to one side, this could certainly mean you are having a stroke - in this case, most likely a small stroke in a par...

Anytime a sudden episode such as that occurs, the three things that come to my mind are 1) Stroke, 2) Seizure, 3) Migraine (not the same as a headache). Of those, the most dangerous would be stroke. At a minimum, you should check in with your doctor (soon) for a physical exam and likely some basic...

To be honest, I have never heard of this specific complaint. However, venous strokes are rare enough that this may well be a long-term complication, and has just not been well described in the medical literature. If all of your scans are ok, I think this is a benign issue that should hopefully get...